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Bringing Back the Buckhorn

Covelo’s Buckhorn Bar has been the community watering hole for generations. A dive bar smack dab in the middle of Indian Country, the Buckhorn’s Old West saloon reputation is coupled with the generations of Round…

Can Mendo Afford County Counsel Curtis?

Today we add to the Major’s Major Failures and Screw Ups by the Board of Supervisors the Board’s gifting of a huge pay increase to County Counsel Christian Curtis. Curtis is now the highest paid…

Counting Down

Three weeks have passed since the election held on June 7, and most statewide and local races, almost all of them in fact, have been decided some time ago. Yet here in Mendocino County, there…

Rep. Huffman in Fort Bragg

Our United States Congressman Jared Huffman plans to attend the Fort Bragg rally today to show his support for abortion rights (barring any travel issues). He represents us in District 2 in the US House…

Supes Drop Water Sales Tax: Fire Tax Only

As they say, all’s well that ends well, and that sums up Tuesday’s (June 21) Board of Supervisors meeting where a decision was finally made ending the Great Sales Tax War. Quick background on sales…

County Notes: Gjerde’s on a Roll!

After an entertainingly contentious argument about a potential sales tax on November’s ballot, the Board finally decided to ask County Counsel to draft a ballot measure for a 1/4-cent sales tax measure in November with…

Monkeypox

Monkeypox is a virus in the genus orthopoxvirus, which includes the variola virus that causes the disease smallpox.  It was first identified in the late 1950’s in a research lab in Denmark that was studying…

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